Arrests linked to jihadist terrorism spike: Europol

The number of people arrested on suspicion of Islamic terrorism in Europe rose for the third year in a row in 2016 to 718 and is expected to keep rising, EU police agency Europol said in its annual report published Thursday.

The number of arrests for terror offences overall declined, with 1,002 in 2016 versus 1,077 in 2015, as did the number of arrests of those traveling to conflict zones for terrorist purposes, to 77 in 2016 from 141 in 2015.

There were 142 failed, foiled and successful terror attacks in 2016 reported by eight member countries, which included attacks by jihadists, nationalists and other groups, Europol said.

More than half (76) of them were in the U.K., 23 in France, 17 in Italy, 10 in Spain, six in Greece, five in Germany, four in Belgium and one in the Netherlands. A total of 142 victims died in the attacks and 379 were injured.

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